National Fire Codes: Request for Public Input for Revision of Codes and Standards
Type of Notice: Request for Information
Deadline: Varies by standard. 5:00 pm ET by the specified date. Specific dates are available online.
Summary: NIST is publishing this notice on behalf of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) to announce the NFPA's proposal to revise some of its fire safety codes and standards and requests Public Input to amend existing or begin the process of developing new NFPA fire safety codes and standards. The purpose of this request is to increase public participation in the system used by NFPA to develop its codes and standards.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

National Cyber Security Awareness
Deadline: 7/5/12
Award Size: $750,000 - $1.5M
Summary: DHS aims to enhance coordination and collaboration among appropriate private sector and non-profit organizations as well as federal, state, and local government entities to facilitate a comprehensive national cybersecurity awareness campaign including specific programs, activities, audience-specific awareness materials and outreach efforts, expansion of the Stop. Think. Connect. Campaign, as well as support for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October.
Publication Date: 6/5/12

Applications for New Awards: Technology and Media Services for Individuals With Disabilities-Models Promoting Young Children's Use of Assistive Technology
Deadline: 7/19/12, 4:30 pm ET
Award Size: $375,000 - $400,000
Summary: The purpose of the Technology and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities program is to: (1) Improve results for students with disabilities by promoting the development, demonstration, and use of technology; (2) support educational media services activities designed to be of educational value in the classroom for students with disabilities; and (3) provide support for captioning and video description that is appropriate for use in the classroom.
Publication Date: 6/4/12

Applications for New Awards; Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program; National Data and Statistical Center for the Burn Model Systems
Deadline: Application - 8/6/12; Pre-Application Meeting - 6/28/12
Award Size:
Summary: The purpose of the Program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities, including international activities, to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities and to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. There are two absolute priorities which are described more fully under a separate notice: General Disability Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Requirements and National Data and Statistical Center for the Burn Model Systems (National BMS Data Center).
Publication Date: 6/7/12

Request for Information on Strategies for Improving Outcomes for Disconnected Youth
Type of Notice: Request for Information
Deadline: 7/5/12
Summary: This RFI seeks recommendations on effective approaches for improving outcomes for disconnected youth by working across Federal, State, and local community programs and systems that provide services to disconnected youth.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Applications for New Awards; Comprehensive Centers Program
Deadline: Notice of Intent - 6/26/12; Application - 8/6/12
Available Funds: $50M for at least 20 awards
Summary: The Comprehensive Centers program supports the establishment of technical assistance centers to provide technical assistance to State educational agencies (SEAs) that builds their capacity to support local educational agencies (LEAs or districts) and schools, especially low-performing districts and schools; improve educational outcomes for all students; close achievement gaps; and improve the quality of instruction. A notice on the proposed priorities was published elsewhere in the Federal Register.
Publication Date: 6/6/12

FY 2013 Research Opportunities in High Energy Physics
Deadline: Letter of Intent (Strongly Recommended) - 7/16/12, 5:00 pm ET; Application - 9/10/12
Available Funds: $60M
Summary: The Office of High Energy Physics at the U. S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, hereby invites new grant applications for support of research programs in high-energy physics.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Resilient Extreme-Scale Solvers (?RX-Solvers?)
Deadline: 8/13/12
Award Size: Large Team Awards - $1M - $2.5M per year.; Small Team Awards - Up to $250,000 per year
Summary: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Office of Science (SC), US Department of Energy (DOE), thereby invites applications for basic research in Resilient Extreme-Scale Solvers (?RX-Solvers?) that demonstrably advances the state of science and practice for scalable, resilient, extreme-scale numerical algorithms, to enable scientific discovery on the supercomputers expected to come online in the next 5-10 years and lay the foundation for research in numerical algorithms for extreme-scale scientific computing.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Heavy-Duty Highway Program: Revisions for Emergency Vehicles and SCR Maintenance
Type of Rule: Direct Final Rule; Propsed Rule & Comments
Deadline: 7/27/12
Effective: 8/7/12
Summary: EPA is proposing three revisions to regulationgs affecting heavy-duty highway emergency vehicles. These actions are not expected to result in any significant changes in regulatory burdens or costs.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Changes to the Central Data Exchange System
Type of Notice: Comments
Effective: 8/6/12
Summary: In compliance with the Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Regulation (CROMERR), this notice announces EPA's plan to change its Central Data Exchange (CDX) system. The change is to take advantage of opportunities offered by evolving technologies to improve CDX services by modernizing the user registration process and providing additional user functionality.
Publication Date: 6/5/12

Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health; Notice of Meeting
Type of Meeting: Webcast
Deadline: 6/25/12, 2:30 - 5:00 pm
Summary: The agenda for the webcast meeting will include the review and approval of the Second Report of the Advisory Group. Additional information about the Advisory Group and the agenda for this meeting can be obtained online.
Publication Date: 6/5/12

Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center
Deadline: 8/3/12
Award Size: $1.5M - $2.1M
Summary: The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) supports a national T & TA effort designed to enhance and promote the continuous evidence based quality improvement of services with a focus on the social and emotional well being of children, youth and families served by FYSB funded RHY grantees.
Publication Date: 6/4/12

Parenting Time Opportunities for Children in the Child Support Program
Deadline: 8/3/12
Award Size: $75,000 - $100,000
Summary: ACF invites eligible IV-D agencies to submit competitive grant applications to develop, implement, and evaluate service delivery models to establish parenting time orders along with child support order.
Publication Date: 6/4/12

Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Program: Regional Performance and Innovation Consortia (RPIC)
Deadline: 8/6/12
Award Size: $400,000 per budget period
Summary: This cooperative agreement will support an ongoing State, regional, and National T/TA Strategy for collaboration, capacity-building, and exemplary practice in the CSBG program and among State Community Action Agency Associations, hereafter referred to as State Associations.
Publication Date: 6/7/12

Services for Survivors of Torture Program: Technical Assistance to Organizations and Institutions Providing Direct Services to Torture Survivors
Deadline: 8/6/12
Award Size: $100,000 - $500,000
Summary: In the past, ORR has awarded up to two cooperative agreements to serve torture treatment centers, as well as, mainstream, refugee, and immigrant service providers who encounter torture survivors in their caseloads.
Publication Date: 6/7/12

Services for Survivors of Torture Program: Assistance to Torture Survivors Through Direct Services
Deadline: 8/6/12
Award Size: $100,000 - $600,000
Summary: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is interested in awarding up to 30 grants for direct services to persons who have been tortured.
Publication Date: 6/7/12

Information and Planning: Understanding the Capacity of the Aging Network
Deadline: Letter of Intent - 6/18/12; Application - 7/16/12
Award Size: Up to $177,923 for the first year
Summary: The successful applicant will seek to put a process in place that improves the Aging Networks understanding of the activities, including innovations and best practices, of Older Americans Act (OAA) Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) and American Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian (Tribal Organizations) Networks. The successful applicant will seek to capture Network progress in key programmatic priorities in health and long term care so as to gain an understanding of the future direction of training and technical assistance for the Network.
Publication Date: 6/5/12

Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-Ethics Subcommittee (ES)
Type of Notice: Teleconference
Date: 6/29/12, 9:30 am -12:30 pm ET
Summary: Agenda items will include the following: Addition of ethics standards to the accreditation process for public health departments; ethical considerations relating to use of travel restrictions for the control of communicable diseases and possible revisions to CDC's standard operating procedures; progress on developing practical tools to assist state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments in their efforts to address public health ethics challenges; approaches for evaluating the impact of public health ethics; and strategies for increasing collaboration between public health ethics and public health law.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Affordable Care Act - Consumer Assistance Program Grants
Deadline: 7/9/12, 4:00 pm ET
Award Size: Nevada is eligible for $237,559 - $334,958
Summary: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) has been developed to enable States to establishor expand existing consumer assistance programs by performing duties authorized under section2793 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act. A pre-application conference call will be held on 6/12/12, 4:00 pm ET on 877-267-1577, Meeting ID: 3918.
Publication Date: 6/7/12

Medicare Program; Proposal Evaluation Criteria and Standards for End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network Organizations
Type of Notice: General Notice
Effective: 6/8/12
Summary: This notice describes the standards, criteria, and procedures we will use to evaluate an End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network Organization's capabilities to perform, and actual performance of, the duties and functions under the ESRD Network Statement of Work (SOW).
Publiation Date: 6/8/12

Cooperative Agreements for State Adolescent Treatment Enhancement and Dissemination
Award Size: Up to $1M per year
Deadline: 7/11/12, 5:00 pm ET
Summary: The purpose of this program is to provide funding to States/Territories/Tribes to improve treatment for adolescents through the development of a learning laboratory with collaborating local community-based treatment provider sites.
Publication Date: 6/6/12

Strategic Prevention Framework - Partnerships for Success II
Deadline: 7/19/12, 5:00 pm ET
Award Size: Up to $1.2M per year
Summary: The SPF-PFS II is designed to address two of the nation’s top substance abuse prevention priorities: 1)underage drinking among persons aged 12to 20; and 2) prescription drug misuse and abuse among persons aged 12 to 25.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Carson City District Office Community Fire Assistance Program You Call / We Haul
Deadline: 6/11/12
Award Size: Up to $30,000
Summary: BLM seeks a partner (recipient) for the purpose of better educating the public by conducting public outreach on how to reduce the risk and impact of wildland fire in Nevada communities through wildfire protection planning and by maintaining defensible space surrounding homes and structures; thus enhancing the fire protection capability of communities located in the BLM Carson City District Office, Carson City, Nevada area.
Publication Date: 6/412

BLM Nevada Conservation and Land Management Internship Program
Deadline: 6/21/12
Award Size: Up to $2M
Summary: BLM as opportunities to place college graduates into conservation and land management internships to work with land managers on a variety of natural resource projects. This opportunity is posted as a Notice of Intent to award to a particular entity for which the Nevada BLM desires to continue work under the present assistance agreement and enable interns to complete their term of service.
Publication Date: 6/7/12

Temporary Closures of Public Land in Washoe County, NV
Type of Notice: Temporary Closure
Dates: 6/13/12 - 6/16/12; 9/12/12 - 9/16/12
Summary: Certain public land near Stead, Nevada, will be temporarily closed to all public use to provide for public safety during the 2012 Reno Air Racing Association Pylon Racing Seminar and the Reno National Championship Air Races.
Publication Date: 6/5/12

Cooperative Landscape Conservation and Adaptive Science
Deadline: Rolling basis until 6/4/13
Award Size: $1,000 - $1M
Summary: The USFWS uses a science-based, adaptive framework for setting and achieving cross-program conservation objectives that strategically address the problems fish and wildlife will face in the future. In addition, by leveraging resources and strategically targeting science to inform conservation decisions and actions, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC) are being established to create a network of partners working in unison to ensure the sustainability of America's land, water, wildlife and cultural resources.
Publication Date: 6/4/12

State and Interstate Aquatic Nuisance Species Management Plan Program
Deadline: 6/20/12
Award Size: Up to $40,000
Summary: These cost share grants are for the implementation of State and Interstate ANS Management Plans (ANS Plans) that have been approved by the ANS Task Force. These ANS Plans identify technical, enforcement, or financial assistance activities needed to eliminate or reduce the environmental, public health and safety risks associated with aquatic nuisance species (also known as aquatic invasive species).
Publication Date: 6/6/12

Webless Migratory Game Bird Program RFP - FY13
Deadline: 11/1/12
Award Size: $5,000 - $150,000
Summary: The primary purpose of the WMGBP is to support activities that will improve management of the 16 species of migratory shore and upland game birds in North America. Priorities are available online.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Draft Offender Tracking System Standard
Type of Notice: Availability & Comments
Deadline: 7/23/12
Summary: OJP and NIJ are making available to the general public three draft documents: (1) A draft standard entitled, “Offender Tracking System Standard” (2) a draft companion document entitled, “Offender Tracking System Certification Program Requirements” and (3) a Selection and Application Guide. The opportunity to provide comments is open to industry technical representatives, criminal justice agencies and organizations, research, development and scientific communities, and all other stakeholders and interested parties.
Publication Date: 6/6/12

NEA GAP: Art Works Deadline 2, FY2013
Deadline: 8/9/12
Award Size: $10,000 - $100,000
Summary: The purpose of the Program is to support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts.
Publication Date: 6/5/12

Digital Humanities Start-up Grants
Deadline: 9/25/12
Award Size: Level I - $5,000 - $30,000; Level II - $30,001 - $60,000
Summary: This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively small grants to support the planning stages, NEH aims to encourage the development of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities. Two levels of of awards will be made.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Focused Research Groups in the Mathematical Sciences
Deadline: 9/21/12, 5:00 pm local time
Award Size: $150,000 - $500,000
Summary: The purpose of the FRG activity is to allow groups of researchers to respond to recognized scientific needs of pressing importance, to take advantage of current scientific opportunities, or to prepare the ground for anticipated significant scientific developments in the mathematical sciences.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

US Small Business Administration Federal and State Technology Partnership Program (FAST)
Type of Notice: Comments
Deadline: 7/9/12
Award Size: Up to $100,000
Summary: SBA will make awards to organizations to conduct outreach and provide technical assistance services to technology-based small business owners.
Publication Date: 6/5/12

State Enforcement of Household Goods Consumer Protection
Type of Notice: Notice of Enforcement
Deadline: 1/28/11, retroactively
Summary: FMCSA provides an updated list of statutory provisions and FMCSA regulations that State household goods regulatory authorities and State attorneys general may enforce, reflecting amendments to FMCSA's regulations regarding brokers of household goods.
Publication Date: 6/4/12

Transit Safety Research - Pedestrian Collision Warning Pilot Project
Deadline: 8/15/12
Award Size: Up to $400,000
Summary: The main objective of this pilot is to increase pedestrian/cyclist safety through demonstration of advanced pedestrian warning system on transit buses. FTA seeks applications to demonstrate innovative technologies that support the achievement of this objective.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Rural Business Opportunity Grant (RBOG)
Deadline: 8/6/12, 4:00 pm local time
Award Size: Up to $50,000
Summary: The primary objective of the RBOG program is to promote sustainable economic development in rural communities with exceptional needs. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis.
Publication Date: 6/7/12

Rural Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG)
Deadline: 8/6/12
Award Size: Up to $175,000
Summary: The primary objective of the RCDG program is to improve the economic condition of rural areas by assisting individuals or entities in the startup, expansion or operational improvement of rural cooperatives and other business entities.
Publication Date: 6/8/12

Selection and Functions of Farm Service Agency State and County Committees
Type of Notice: Interim Rule & Comments
Deadline: Comments - 8/6/12
Effective: 9/4/12
Summary: This rule amends the regulations governing the selection and functions of FSA State and county committees. The intent of the amendments is to ensure that socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers are appropriately represented on county committees, to make the county committee election process more open and accountable, and to clarify requirements for committee membership in the situation where existing county committees are consolidated or combined.
Publication Date: 6/5/12

Newspapers Used for Publication of Legal Notices by the Intermountain Region; Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming
Type of Notice: General Notice
Effective: June 2012
Summary: The intended effect of this action is to inform interested members of the public which newspapers the Forest Service will use to publish notices of proposed actions and notices of decision. This will provide the public with constructive notice of Forest Service proposals and decisions, provide information on the procedures to comment or appeal, and establish the date that the Forest Service will use to determine if comments or appeals were timely.
Publication Date: 6/7/12